Why are people so obsessed with politicians?

Generically, politicians are a concern to many because what politicians do can impact us all so much. Trump holds a particular hold on many because of all the efforts to block him.

Since he started running in 2015, he was targeted because he was not a DC insider. The smears started coming out. At the time, the MSM (ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, etc) all were mouthpieces for the Democrat party. So they spun all sorts of lies an innuendo against Trump. When he won, suddenly it was Russia Collusion that did it. That was created by the Democrats and pushed by the media. The story was suddenly that he was a Russia plant and didn’t deserve to be POTUS. To the average American this sounded really bad. And he was President!!!

This behavior carried on all through his first term and into his second effort in 2020. Anything he did or said was twisted so it could be viewed as a negative. And at the same time, anything negative about a Democrat was covered up. It’s called propaganda. This worked to split the country significantly. One side felt that nothing President Trump said or did could ever by right and the other side questioned “the narrative”.

By about 2 years into Biden’s presidency, many people were realizing the game that was going on. The trust in the media was severely lessened and the Democrats weren’t doing anything for Americans. So again, looking at politicians, the people started seeing that things weren’t really as bad as they were told during Trump’s first term and weren’t nearly as good as they were being told about Biden’s. So things needed to change.

People frequently forget that all politicians are flawed creatures because they are humans. We are all flawed creatures. But the decisions that politicians make can have broad reaching impact on all people in the country and into the world. And often, the average Joe looks at it from a very small lens. If you go to fill up the tank on your car and you see the gas price is 50 cents more per gallon than it was a couple weeks before, you start to realize this is an impact on your budget. When food prices start soaring, this is another impact on your budget. People see things that are impacting them directly and tend to blame the politicians because it is the decisions the politicians are making that are often causing the problems. We sometimes forget that it might not be the guy/gal that is currently in office that is responsible and we often forget that Congress really needs to be held more accountable. We just love having one target, though.

Our politicians have direct power over our lives. When that power is abused, it negatively affects us.
That’s why.

Excellent answer @canidmajor short and the absolute truth.

I was just coming on to say because they affect every aspect of our lives but I see that @canidmajor has said the same thing.

What @canidmajor said.

Also, most people in the US don’t have a coherent politics or class consciousness, reducing politics to personalities. The corporate media plays this up, and we end up supporting/opposing people rather than policy. That’s how people can suddenly shift support of policy based on who they see as the ones implementing it.

“Both sides bring him up over the dumbest of things.” “Oh, Ben&Jerry made this new flavor? If Trump made an ice cream flavor…”

Happens here too…pretty much every day. You probably know who. And yes, it’s often because politicians have a negative effect when they do things that hurt the majority of the people. And some people just love to talk about them.

I get how important politicians are. Doesn’t justify bringing them up during every conversation that does not involve politics. Thats what I am saying. Not just bringing it up in general.

My examples are what I mean. Like, if you need to talk about Trump when somone casually mentions the weather, you have problems. Those are the people I mean. That is not normal no matter how you look at it.

I guess I have better things to do with my life.

^^ You’ve put succinctly what many of us think.